Dog toy



Nov. 4, 1969 v D. G. WAY

DOG TOY Filed Oct. 25, 1967 United States Patent 3,476,086 DOG TOY DavidG. Way, Boxborough, Mass. (RED. 1, West Acton, Mass. 01780) Filed Oct.25, 1967, Ser. No. 678,020 Int. Cl. A01k 15/00 US. Cl. 119--29 8 ClaimsABSTRACT OF THE DISQLOSURE Dog toy formed from a cord-like memberresistant to chewing, the cord being coiled and interconnected by knotsthat are spaced from each other with the coil ends being exposed asloops.

The present invention relates to dog toys formed from cord-like members.

A substantial number of dog owners recognize that their dogs becomeattached to an object for one reason or another. As a consequence, socalled dog toys have found increasingly wider acceptance with theobjective of such dog toys ranging from an object that may be safelychewed to an object having a real but less readily defined link with thedogs master.

The objective of the present invention is to provide a dog toy that willhave appeal to the dog for several reasons. By way of example, a dog toyshould be one on which a puppy may chew and at the same time, it shouldhave other uses, a thing that the dog can share with others either as atraining lesson in object retrieval or as an object for a tug of warbetween dog and master.

In accordance with the invention, this objective is attained with a dogtoy formed from a cord-like member disposed preferably in a plurality ofcoils with the coils knotted together, the knots being spaced from eachother and from the ends of the coils so that the coil ends are disposedas loops and the toy is characterized by hard areas, the knots, andintermediate areas where the several lengths of the coils are heldloosely together.

In the accompanying drawings there is shown an embodiment of theinvention illustrative of these and other of its objectives, novelfeatures, and advantages.

In the drawings:

FIGURE 1 is a view of an appropriate length of a cord with its endsjoined together to form a loop,

FIGURE 2 is a view showing the loop formed into two coils,

FIGURE 3 is a view of the dog toy completed by knotting the coilstogether, and

FIGURE 4 is a fragmentary view, on an increased scale showing cord endsreadied to be joined together by heat sealing.

A dog toy in accordance with the invention is generally indicated at 5and is shown as formed by joining the ends of a cord-like member 6 andthen forming two generally indicated coils 7 from the resulting loop.The coils are then interconnected by three knots 8 spaced from eachother and from the ends of the coils so that the ends of the coils areexposed as loops. In practice, each knot 8 is of the type made bypulling corresponding ends of all the coils through a bight inclusive ofall of the lengths of the coils.

It is preferred that nylon cord, particularly braided nylon cord, beused, as such cords resist the attack of sharp puppy teeth. Such cordmay have its ends heat sealed together as indicated at 9 and theresulting joint is preferably concealed within a knot 8.

A dog toy in accordance with the invention has attraction for a dog inthat the knots 8 establish hard areas while in the remainder of itslength the cord lengths are loosely held together and the loop endsenable the toy to be securely held when one is playing with the dog. Asit is desirable that a dog may hold a loose section in his mouth, thespacing between the knots is desirably approximately in the four to liveinch range and while the overall length of the toys may be varied, anoverall length in the neighborhood of eighteen inches has proved to besatisfactory.

I claim:

1. A dog toy and training device comprising a coiled cord-like memberincluding a plurality of coil-connecting knots formed from a portion ofthe member and spaced from each other and from the ends of the member.

2. The dog toy of claim 1 in which the cord-like member is a braidednylon cord.

3. The dog toy of claim 1 in which the cord-like member is a lengthhaving its ends joined together.

4. The dog toy of claim 1 in which the cord-like member is endless andincludes a plurality of elongated coils, the ends of the coils beingexposed as loops.

5. The dog toy of claim 1 in which each knot is a bight inclusive of allof the lengths of the member through which the corresponding ends of allthe coils extend.

6. The dog toy of claim 1 in which there are three knots spaced apart anapproximately equal distance.

7. The dog toy of claim 1 in which there are two coils.

8. The dog toy of claim 3 in which the joint between the ends isconcealed within a knot.

Encyclopedia of Knots-Cornell Maritime Press, Cambridge, Md. 1958,fourth edition TT880-G7, Plate 271, FIG. 311 and plate 331, FIG. 5, copyin Scientific Library.

ALDRICH F. MEDBERRY, Primary Examiner US. Cl. X.-R. 46-1

